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___ 37 Sketches........... Published by Six Mile Creek Press, Ithaca, NY 2011
37 Sketches is both an artfully designed and beautifully made book. It shows my new work built on the idea of exploring the elements of design by constructing small studies, which I quickly began to think of as sketches. I began to see these sketches in much the same way as a painter does in using sketches to explore technique and to work out color and composition ideas. These pieces are abstract compositions, worked primarily in solids. Constructing these 37 sketches provided me with a valuable and expedient way to explore new technique, color, and composition. I explain my process for making these small studies using my liberated, improvisational methods, of which many of you are very familiar, and discuss how the experience of making this series of sketches was like taking a crash course in design.
Pat Holly had this to say about 37 Sketches: "I am so excited about this book! You did a great job in the text also-you explained your process very clearly and simply. This is not easy to do! Good job!"
The page layouts are done in such an artful way that the text on the left page and the quilt on the right interact in a supportive way, as you can see in the two sample page spreads shown here. Patricia Ensey expressed it well by saying "The layout of the pages added greatly to the text, tying it to the art."
37 Sketches is off to New Zealand: I will be teaching at the National Quilt Symposium in Taupo, New Zealand in 2013 and have been invited to present a one-woman, month-long exhibit of the work shown in 37 Sketches at the Taupo Museum during July.
This book is beautifully crafted in the classical style and with attention to every detail. 37 Sketches is published in a first edition of 2,000 copies. The 96 page hardcover book has a Smyth sewn binding, is printed on
120 lb Gallerie Art Silk, and includes 37 color plates and additional illustrations of quilt details. The book is published by award winning Six Mile Creek Press, Ithaca, NY; printed in the United States by Capital Offset, Inc., Concord, NH; and bound by Acme Bookbinding, Charlestown, MA.
---U.S. $29.95 plus 3.99 shipping and handling. Total: $33.94
Canada shipping 6.00
International shipping 12.00
___ Liberated Quiltmaking II........... Published by AQS, 2010
My new book Liberated Quiltmaking II came about because of the amount of mail AQS received asking for it. The book contains reviews of some of the ideas presented in the first book including an update on Liberated Stars which has become a very popular way to make Star blocks. The book also introduces liberated ideas for making
baskets, working with odd sized triangles, medallions, samplers and more. It shows 7 quilts from the first book and 60 new ones.
---US$29.00 plus $3.00 postage
___ Freddy and Gwen Collaborate Again........... Published by Sterling, 2009
- Freddy and Gwen Collaborate Again is a follow-up of our Collaborative Quilting (Sterling 2006). This second book follows the same format as the first book featuring full page color photographs of all the quilts, 40 individual quilts and 30 new collaborative quilts. Just as in the first book, we tell how all the parts that make up each quilt are made, and cross reference them with all the quilts that use that particular part. It makes the book easy to use and encourages quilters to make their own design choices. In this second book we focused on creating bold, modern interpretations of traditional quilts and we explain in detail how to go about it. This book has 192 eye-popping pages and we think it has something for everyone.
---US$25.00* plus $5.00 postage
___ Mary Schafer; American Quilt Maker
Marston,The University of Michigan Press, 2004
(Awarded a 2005 Notable Book Award by the Michigan Library Association)
- Here it is folks, a book I've been working on in one way or another for 25 years.
It's about Mary Schafer, the great Michigan quilt maker. In telling the Mary Schafer story, I also tell the story of quilt making in America over the past 50 years.
Here is what the University of Michigan Press says about it:
"Mary Schafer; American Quilt Maker is a must-have book for anyone passionate about American Quilting."
The book has 216 pages, 11 patterns and 120 photographs.
---Soft Cover: $25.00* plus $5.00 postage
---Limited Edition Hard Cover: $65.00* plus $5.00 postage
The following books are not available through Gwen but are still available through the publishers who can be located on line.
- Twenty Little Patchwork Quilts, Dover Publications, 1990
Twenty Little Amish Quilts, Dover Publications, 1993
Twenty Little Log Cabin Quilts, Dover Press, 1995
Mary Schafer & Her Quilts, Michigan State University Press 1990
Q is for Quilt, MSU Press 1987
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Gwen Marston
Beaver Island Quilts
Box 155
Beaver Island, MI 49782
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